Previously I’ve made a couple of photo reports from the community of Vestby, but I feel you’d perhaps be delighted to make an acquaintance with the small place called ‘Son’?
And allthough Son belongs to the community of Vestby, the place has more or less over the years grown together with the city of Moss a bit further south in the ‘Moss strait’.Etter å ha kjørt ca 15 -20 minutter mot sørvest, begynte vi å kjenne lukten av salt sjø og plutselig fikk vi et lite glimt av en maritimt miljø der foran oss –

A small bridge brought us across the last remains of salt water and suddenly we were in Son itself. In the aftermath we discovered that the Son of today was a rather a ‘longdrawnaffair’ which it would have taken a good many hours to explore, but the center itself we photographed!

Det bygges i Son! Moderne blokkleiligheter – strandsonen – ja, praktisk talt på kaia!
There is a building activity in Son – in the coastal zone – practically on the pier itself!

Og det kommer tydeligvis mer ?
And evidently more is coming?De som til slutt flytter inn her får virkelig drømmeleiligheter –
Those that may move in here, really gets the apartment of their dreams.

Down in the corner, close to the water, I stumbled across a small business with an exiting choice of name: The Bitch House! No, not ‘beach house’, but really ‘Bitch House’! I must confess my curiosity, so I knocked on the door . . .
It proved to be a couple of nice ladies working within advertising business but whom were also operating a gallery, partly with self produced art.

Her har jeg tatt et bilde av ‘strandlinjen’ i Son.
Here I have taken a picture from the waterfront in Son.

WE had asked the kind ladies in the Bitch House whether there was some viewing point that would provide us with a panorama shot of Son? And yes, there were! Now all we had to do was finding our way around . . .Vi følte oss litt rundt i bakgater og frukthaver. . .Var vi på rett vei?Jo, der var det visst: Labobakken. Det var visst navnet vi burde se etter . . .Yes, there it seemed to be: ‘ Labobakken’, the name we were supposed to look for . . .

Og det var en varm dag og en laaang bakke . . .
And it was a rather hot day, and the hill was a looong one . . .!

Looking at the terrain we’re getting a distinct feeling of having reached the top, but just to make sure we went on for a little bit longer . . .Jo, veien begynte faktisk å gå nedover igjen? Så hvor var dette utsiktspunktet vi lette etter?

Yes, the road was actually going downwards again! So where was this viewing point we were looking for?Inn her? Nei, her endte det rett i fjellveggen. En privat og godt skjermet parkeringsplass!

In here? No, here it ended directly into the cliffs. A private and excedllently shielded parking place!

And suddenly we discovered a part of Som that couldn’t be seen from the pier. And as far as we could judge, there had been no side streets from ‘Labobakken’? Anyway, it seemed to us like this part of Son exclusively included private homes!?Når vi ser ut over Son her oppe fra, så er vi neppe særlig høyere enn 50-60 meter opp?Så da må vi vel tilskrive solen og varmen at vi peste litt på vei opp? 🙂 Men utsikten er jo flott da?
Looking across Son from up here, we han see that we are probably no higher up than 50-60 yards? That probably means that our slight panting uphill was due to the sun and the heat more than altitude 🙂 But the view was worth it, don’t you think?Kiwi er en dagligvare-kjede, men her får vi kanskje et inntrykk av at de også selger biler?Det gjør de altså ikke 🙂 , men KIWI’s utsalg ligger på andre siden av bygget!

‘Kiwi’ is a grocery-chain, but here it’s easy to get the impression that they are also selling cars? Which the do not! KIWI’s grocery shop is located to the other side of the building!
Out trip has ended for this time. Som proved to be a pleasant relationship, but it has really changed in a major way since last time I was here. Not very unexpected, own age taken into consideration. 🙂
(Compliments of SRB)